
Eat Yourself Happier!
Dopamine – the Feel Good Hormone – is produced by your brain, from the amino acids tyrosine and phenylalanine. It is closely linked with the role that pleasure plays in our life – attention, focus, planning, learning and finding things interesting – with enthusiasm! It’s involved in a whole host of processes including your heart

Dear World
Dear World, Thank you for this time you have given us, this time you have claimed. YOU could see the madness we were making; and through the bats, your creatures of the dark, spirits of the night that should fly free – you are firmly and lovingly taking us by the hand. We are as

Three Tips to Keep Yourself Healthy
Dear friends, there is so much advice swirling around us in these unsettling times that I want to keep these tips really simple for you Drink plenty of water! I keep a litre jug of water on the side, and know that I need to drink all of it at least once a day, in

3 Ways Of Looking At Your Waist
1. Your Waist to Height Ratio. This is delightfully simple – your waist should be LESS THAN than half your height, ie a ratio of less than 50 So if you are 5‘4“, which is 64“, your waist should be LESS THAN 32“ Click here for more information: 2. Your Waist to Hip Ratio Confusingly

Borborygmus, or – Why does my stomach gurgle when I have cranial osteopathy?
Borborygmus is not a nonsense word, but the wonderfully onomatapoeic description from the ancient Greek for intestinal gurglings 😊 Our central nervous system is divided into the Sympathetic Nervous System [SNS] – the part which drives us into action to fend off marauding tribes or sabre-toothed tigers, or – in modern life, to cope with:-

Are you Waylaid by The Cravings Mob?
“She looked at her bathroom scales, aghast – she knew her weight had been creeping upwards over the last year to 18 months, not surprising given the stress she had been under, but that much . . . ?!?!” As an osteopath I see, shall we say – a wide range of body types. Some people,